Totals
- Total revenue
- $2,639,758
- Total expenses
- $3,593,089
- Contributions and grants received
- $970,332
- Grants paid
- $0
- Program service revenue
- $1,669,426
- Investment income
- $0
- Other revenue
- $0
- Total assets, end of year
- $14,476,562
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $3,760,817
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $10,715,745
- Program services expenses (Part IX)
- $2,738,519
- Management and general expenses
- $695,197
- Fundraising expenses
- $159,373
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $2,738,519
Program services were 76.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
Line items
Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.
Revenue
Part VIII, the statement of revenue.
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1a · Federated campaigns
$0
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1b · Membership dues
$0
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1c · Fundraising events
$0
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1d · Related organizations
$0
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1e · Government grants (contributions)
$48,000
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1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants
$922,332
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1g · Noncash contributions included above
$0
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2a · Program service revenue: AS220 Youth & Related
total $458,870 · related or exempt $458,870 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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2b · Program service revenue: Live Work & Related
total $365,331 · related or exempt $128,178 · unrelated business $237,153 · excluded $0
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2c · Program service revenue: Ticket Sales
total $160,768 · related or exempt $160,768 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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2d · Program service revenue: Classes & Workshops adults
total $297,879 · related or exempt $297,879 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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2e · Program service revenue: Gallery & Artwork Sales
total $21,337 · related or exempt $21,337 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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2f · All other program service revenue
total $365,241 · related or exempt $365,241 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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3 · Investment income
total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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4 · Income from investment of tax-exempt bond proceeds
total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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5 · Royalties
total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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6a · Gross rents
real property $0 · personal property $0
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6b · Less rental expenses
real property $0 · personal property $0
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6c · Rental income or loss
real property $0 · personal property $0
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6d · Net rental income or loss
total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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7a · Gross sales of assets other than inventory
securities $0 · other assets $0
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7b · Less cost or other basis and sales expenses
securities $0 · other assets $0
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7c · Gain or loss
securities $0 · other assets $0
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7d · Net gain or loss
total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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8a · Fundraising events: gross income
$0
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8a · Fundraising events: contributions included on line 1c
$0
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8b · Fundraising events: direct expenses
$0
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8c · Net income from fundraising events
total $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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9a · Gaming: gross income
$0
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9b · Gaming: direct expenses
$0
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9c · Net income from gaming
total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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10a · Gross sales of inventory
$0
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10b · Cost of goods sold
$0
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10c · Net income from sales of inventory
total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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11a · Other revenue
total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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11b · Other revenue
total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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11c · Other revenue
total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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11d · All other revenue
total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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11e · Other revenue, total
$0
Functional expenses
Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.
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1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments
total $0 · program services $0
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2 · Grants to domestic individuals
total $0 · program services $0
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3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals
total $0 · program services $0
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4 · Benefits paid to or for members
total $0 · program services $0
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5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
total $176,218 · program services $89,180 · management and general $43,519 · fundraising $43,519
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6 · Compensation of disqualified persons
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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7 · Other salaries and wages
total $1,366,766 · program services $1,192,384 · management and general $80,624 · fundraising $93,758
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8 · Pension plan contributions
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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9 · Other employee benefits
total $168,454 · program services $147,188 · management and general $14,984 · fundraising $6,282
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10 · Payroll taxes
total $140,917 · program services $114,170 · management and general $14,717 · fundraising $12,030
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11a · Fees: management
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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11b · Fees: legal
total $4,253 · program services $0 · management and general $4,253 · fundraising $0
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11c · Fees: accounting
total $6,517 · program services $0 · management and general $6,517 · fundraising $0
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11d · Fees: lobbying
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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11e · Fees: professional fundraising services
total $0 · fundraising $0
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11f · Fees: investment management
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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11g · Fees: other
total $159,653 · program services $159,569 · management and general $0 · fundraising $84
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12 · Advertising and promotion
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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13 · Office expenses
total $58,602 · program services $55,887 · management and general $2,715 · fundraising $0
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14 · Information technology
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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15 · Royalties
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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16 · Occupancy
total $220,745 · program services $191,661 · management and general $26,684 · fundraising $2,400
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17 · Travel
total $3,824 · program services $3,824 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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18 · Travel or entertainment for public officials
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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20 · Interest
total $96,201 · program services $22,891 · management and general $73,310 · fundraising $0
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21 · Payments to affiliates
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization
total $257,867 · program services $219,010 · management and general $38,857 · fundraising $0
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23 · Insurance
total $38,911 · program services $17,630 · management and general $21,281 · fundraising $0
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24a · Other expenses: Artist fees
total $455,056 · program services $453,756 · management and general $0 · fundraising $1,300
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24b · Other expenses: Program supplies & fees
total $71,369 · program services $71,369 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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24c · Other expenses: Investment losses
total $367,736 · program services $0 · management and general $367,736 · fundraising $0
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24d · Other expenses
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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24e · All other expenses
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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26 · Joint costs (an allocation of the lines above)
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
Balance sheet
Part X, book values.
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1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing
beginning of year $79,960 · end of year $65,701
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2 · Savings and temporary cash investments
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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3 · Pledges and grants receivable
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
-
4 · Accounts receivable
beginning of year $353,562 · end of year $313,019
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5 · Loans and receivables from officers and key people
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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6 · Loans and receivables from disqualified persons
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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7 · Other notes and loans receivable
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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8 · Inventories for sale or use
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges
beginning of year $31,162 · end of year $12,878
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10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis
$6,584,799
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10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation
$2,895,606
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10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net
beginning of year $3,929,932 · end of year $3,689,193
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11 · Investments: publicly traded securities
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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12 · Investments: other securities
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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13 · Investments: program-related
beginning of year $10,757,243 · end of year $10,389,507
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14 · Intangible assets
beginning of year $6,917 · end of year $6,264
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15 · Other assets
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses
beginning of year $150,465 · end of year $259,472
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18 · Grants payable
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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19 · Deferred revenue
beginning of year $51,380 · end of year $67,154
-
20 · Tax-exempt bond liabilities
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
-
21 · Escrow or custodial account liability
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
-
22 · Loans and payables to officers and key people
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
-
23 · Secured mortgages and notes payable
beginning of year $3,028,375 · end of year $3,140,111
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24 · Unsecured notes and loans payable
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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25 · Other liabilities
beginning of year $259,480 · end of year $294,080
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27 · Net assets without donor restrictions
beginning of year $11,488,037 · end of year $10,469,300
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28 · Net assets with donor restrictions
beginning of year $181,039 · end of year $246,445
Mission and programs · 2023
Mission
We the people of Rhode Island associate ourselves for the purpose of providing a local forum and home for the arts through the maintenance of residential and work studios galleries performance and educational spaces. Exhibitions and performances in the forum will be unjuried uncensored and open to the general public. Our facilities and services are made available to all artists who need a place to exhibit perform or create their original artwork especially those who cannot obtain space to exhibit or perform from traditional sources because of financial or other limitations.
Activities or mission (Part I)
AS220 is a nonprofit community arts organization providing affordable access to opportunities to learn create present and perform live and earn a living for all Rhode Islanders.
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AS220 YOUTH works with young people aged 14-21 through 5 crews: fashion media arts music dance and visuals. AS220 Youth operates out of 3 primary locations: the Downtown Youth Studio; Nowell Academy a charter school focusing on pregnant and parenting teens; and the Rhode Island Training School the states juvenile detention center where we have been working for over 25 years. This exposure to the arts taps into often-overlooked creative potential offering a powerful learning experience for young people. In FY2024 AS220 Youth ran 92 ongoing classes and served 360 young people including 83 Youth apprentices. AS220 Youth also premiered 2 full studio shows in FY24: FUTUREWORLDS 7 in September 2023 and FUTUREWORLDS 8 in June 2024.
Expenses $786,726 · Revenue $464,581
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LIVE ARTS & GALLERIES: We provide an unjuried uncensored all ages forum for the arts; every artist residing in Rhode Island has the opportunity to exhibit or perform their original work in our venues. AS220 presents an extraordinary range of activities and our unjuried and uncensored booking policy ensures that a limitless variety appears on our stages and on our walls. Live Arts venues include the Main Stage the Black Box and Psychic Readings and these venues host live music theater dance performance art poetry slams film screenings late night programming fashion shows workshops festivals and more. In fiscal year 2024 Live Arts presented over 300 performances and events with over 2,600 artists and attendance of over 15,000. The AS220 Galleries include the Main Gallery the Project Space the Reading Room the Resident Gallery and the Aborn Gallery and feature visual artists working in various mediums on a monthly rotating schedule. In fiscal year 2024 the galleries curated exhibitions featuring 135 visual artists including 107 first-time exhibitors with attendance of over 4,200. In the Aborn Gallery we also continued to intentionally curate timely exhibitions. This model is now being used to support artists and curators who otherwise would not have an opportunity to show work with a focus on projects that: engage with critical social issues relevant to and urgent in our community; present projects that bring new voices to the gallery and AS220 community; uplift artists at critical junctions in their career; and might be outside the traditional parameters of a gallery exhibition and or push against boundaries of the mainstream.
Expenses $423,802 · Revenue $200,332
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LIVE WORK: AS220 owns and manages three mixed-use buildings in downtown Providence Rhode Island totaling approximately 100,000 sq. ft. We offer affordable housing and studio space for over 60 artists on the upper floors of each of our three downtown buildings including 47 live work studios and 8 work-only studios. Each of our buildings includes a mix of affordable residences artist studios and public AS220 programming. We also provide offices space for 4 other non-profit organizations and have 6 commercial tenants all of which are local one-of-a-kind businesses. Permanent affordable artist housing has been key to transforming downtown providence into a vibrant place to live and work over the past 30 years. Our tenants are a core foundation of the AS220 community and have access to AS220 resources. They also help support the community through volunteer work.
Expenses $395,421 · Revenue $103,373
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AS220 COMMUNITY STUDIOS and AS220 DANCE are AS220s formal adult education programs. Community Studios is a cross-disciplinary arts education space and community studio comprising a Media Arts Lab Fabrication Lab Printshop Visuals & Fashion Studio and Community Darkroom. In addition to providing members access to professional tools and equipment for artistic production Community Studios has offered educational workshops from beginner to advanced levels since 2011. By providing affordable access to studio space tools of the trade and varied training opportunities Community Studios has fostered a dynamic environment for learning and making as well as small business development and production. In FY2024 it also became the home of AS220 Youth. In FY2024 138 regular members participated at Community Studios and 224 students attended 45 workshops and events. AS220 Dance hosts weekly classes in many dance and movement forms as well as rehearsal space for dancers. In FY2024 11 regular dance instructors held 320 class sessions for 1,941 students. These two programs also supported the launch of our Creative Leadership project in FY2024. The 14 Fellows 12 of whom completed the program were supported in a year-long program through which they learned about event curation being a teaching artist arts nonprofit management and creative leadership.
Expenses $356,586 · Revenue $248,836
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OTHER PROGRAMS: Other programs includes organization-wide programming such as AS220s participation in the Citys PVD Fest as well as supporting and incubating small and fledgling arts groups and other aligned startup organizations as they grow into their own nonprofits.
Expenses $775,984 · Revenue $415,151
As filed on the 2023 return.
Listed in Part VII
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Ashley Newmann
Co-Executive Director
- Total calculated
- $89,820
- From this org
- $65,967
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $23,853
- Hours/week
- 40
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Shauna Duffy
Co-Executive Director
- Total calculated
- $84,500
- From this org
- $69,425
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $15,075
- Hours/week
- 40
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Janella Watson
Chair
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Aarin Clemons
Vice Chair
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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Michael Dupuis
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Lauren Faria
Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Savannah DaCruz
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
Lizzie Araujo
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
Caroline Mailloux
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
Felicia Megginson
Director till 12-23
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
Ashley Paniagua
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
Joshua Wynn
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
Tim Hamlin
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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Vatic Astahili Tayari Kuumba
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.
Grants on this return
No itemized grants to organizations on this return.
Taxable family on this return
Schedule R Parts I, III and IV, as filed. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money moved.
Related partnerships
Part III: related organizations taxable as a partnership, with the filer's share.
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Mercantile Block LLC
Investment · real estate investment · RI · 25.01% owned · share of income -$80,591 · share of assets $5,230,553
Related corporations and trusts
Part IV: related organizations taxable as a corporation or trust.
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AS220 GP Inc
C-Corporation · Property management · RI · 100% owned · share of income -$160,612 · share of assets $3,988,308
Directly controlled by AS220
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Mercantile Block Manager Inc
C-Corporation · Property management · RI · 100% owned · share of income -$126,980 · share of assets $1,196,653
Directly controlled by AS220
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AS220 Food & Drink LLC
C-Corporation · Bar & Restaurant · RI · 100% owned · share of income $447 · share of assets -$26,007
Directly controlled by AS220
Provenance
- Return type
- form_990
- Tax year
- 2023
- Filed
- 15 May 2025
- IRS schema version
- 2023v6.0
- Source object
- 202531359349309468
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